A vote for anyone is a vote for the GOP holding the country hostage, so why not vote for somebody who will put forth the effort to stop it? The whole point of their tactic is that the same shit get pushed through no matter who gets the vote. Obama and Hillary are IMO fairly conservative Democrats, so they gets flak even for policies the GOP typically favors (when they are the ones doing it). If you need to vote for a Democrat-in-name-only to get anything done, then it is an uphill fight to overcome the status quo in any case.
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